Episode 50: Carrie Mae Weems' Not Manet's Type (1997)

"“I can’t rely on these artists. As much as I love them, I revere them, I’m also very, very disappointed in their engagement of the historical body of the Black self, of the Black body, of the Black imagination.”
- Carrie Mae Weems
Episode webpage: bit.ly/3v2Rc4u
Images:
-Carrie Mae Weems, detail from "Not Manet's Type" (1997)
-"Not Manet's Type" on display at the MFA Boston
-Peter Steiner, cartoon: "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
-Carrie Mae Weems, "Kitchen Table Series" (1990)
-Kodak's "Shirley Card"
-Jean-Léon Gérôme, "The Bath" (c. 1880-1885)
-JMW Turner, "The Slave Ship, Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying-Typhoon coming on" (1840)
-Jan Steen, "Fantasy Interior with Jan Steen and the Family of Gerrit Schouten" (1659-60)
-Edouard Manet, "Olympia" (1863)
-Robert Frank, "Charleston, South Carolina" (1955)
-Carrie Mae Weems, "Mayflowers Long Forgotten" (2004)
-Carrie Mae Weems, "Mayflowers Long Forgotten" (2004)
-Robert Colescott, "Le Demoiselles D'Alabama" (1985)
-Pablo Picasso, "Demoiselles D'Avignon" (1907)
-Kara Walker, "Worlds Exposition 1997" (1997)
-Anselm Kiefer, "Occupation 1969" (1969)
-Carrie Mae Weems, "Museums: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" (2006)
-Carrie Mae Weems, "Museums: The Pergamon, Berlin" (2006)
Music:
-Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
T-he Blue Dot Sessions, “Jumbel,” “Turning to You,” “Pastel de Nata,” “Junca,” “Min,” “Basketliner”
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